{"id":12535,"date":"2012-06-04T18:50:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T22:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=12535"},"modified":"2012-06-04T18:50:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T22:50:31","slug":"documentary-unveils-rape-in-us-military-with-testimonials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/06\/documentary-unveils-rape-in-us-military-with-testimonials\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary unveils rape in US military with testimonials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=gflcgdfj82Q]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A new feature film documentary is winning festival awards and garnering national attention for its in-depth focus on the thousands of women raped every year within the U.S. military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The makers of <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/invisiblewarmovie.com\/index.cfm\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">\u201cThe Invisible War\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span> solicited personal stories from victims and interviewed about 70 for hours each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">At one point in the theatrical trailer, one woman, Kori Cioca, who says she was raped by her supervisor in the U.S. Coast Guard, brandished a hand knife with a blade longer than her fingers, explaining how she carries it on her at all times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cYou always have protection with Jesus but sometimes you need just a little bit more,\u201d said Cioca, who was also holding a metal cross.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">According to the Defense Department\u2019s <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapr.mil\/media\/pdf\/reports\/Department_of_Defense_Fiscal_Year_2011_Annual_Report_on_Sexual_Assault_in_the_Military.pdf\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Sexual Assault Prevention and Response report for 2011<\/span><\/a><\/span>, of the 2,617 reported assaults, it is estimated that the figure represents only 14 percent of all actual offenses, making the total number of victims at 19,000 last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Of the 2011 sexual assaults, 191 military members were convicted as courts-martial, according to the film\u2019s website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Cioca\u2019s attacker admitted to breaking her jaw and other physical abuse but not the rape, according to the film. She is now battling with Veterans Affairs to win approval for surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In addition to numerous victims, the documentary interviews military and defense personnel, elected officials, mental health professionals and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Besides attempting to chronicle the crimes, the film aims to expose how the threat persists and how wide-spread the damage can be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cThe military is a very effective fighting force when it comes to dealing with the enemy without. It\u2019s really now time for them to start dealing with this enemy within,\u201d said one of the filmmakers Kirby Dick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Among other awards, \u201cThe Invisible War\u201d won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and is set to open at select theaters June 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/documentary-unveils-rape-in-us-military-with-testimonials-1.179411\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Source<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=gflcgdfj82Q] A new feature film documentary is winning festival awards and garnering national attention for its in-depth focus on the thousands of women raped every..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,166,43,46,97,106],"tags":[355],"class_list":["post-12535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discrimination","category-government","category-media-culture","category-tvfilm","category-us-news","category-women","tag-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}